Showing posts with label Relationships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Relationships. Show all posts

Sunday, August 23, 2015

The Demon Lover

                                                                        Dead air came out
                       as she went in










Sunday, February 8, 2015

Look at All Those Roses



LOU



            Here were jealous of the rose house –



One of those conflicts between two silent mood






Return from a week-end



Lou’s smart little monkey face
                                                                            she was
Just opening her mouth to risk one further remark





“Oh my goodness” she said,




                                    she had a plan read





                                                            Why should a house
wait?


                                                                                                “Leave
your wife here,” she said. “Then she can have tea.”




                                                                   - her idea of love was
adhesiveness . . . . Knowing


                                    aring out with unhappy eyes.




            A girl of about thirteen lay, flat as a board


                        Flat horizons
Lying their

                                                                        She’s lying down because







                                                           Men will suffer a certain
look in animal’s eyes, but not in women’s eyes



                       he will lose his way.




                                                    When she is not working she rides
home.”
                                                                                                           
                                                       
                            



                                “I never eat tea, thank you,”


He put his hand on

                                                      You’re well out of that, my girl,




















From "Dear John" series.


Sunday, August 17, 2014

Reduced

This must have been the second chapter I worked on.

Looking on the dates when I made these work, I think I was either suffering from insomnia or just manically working non-stop day and night.

When I was at MacDowell, I typically worked in the printmaking studio during the day, and worked on installation in another large studio in the afternoon and evening. All these book pages were done at night. My cottage where I slept was quite far from my studio. I had to walk through the woods. There was no lights outside except the lights from other fellow residents' studios. I carried a flashlight to walk through the woods. There was a bed in the studio, so sometimes I just slept there.

Sixteen years later, I'm looking back at these words I chose. At the time of making, I really wasn't reading any of these stories. As a matter of fact, I don't know any of these stories to this day. Yet, I feel like I know these stories so intimately, because I made them into my own. I had the most intimate and strangely engaging experience with this book without actually reading the stories. When I opened each page, certain words just jumped at me, and those were the words I "saved."

I didn't have to think. These words simply began to float on the page, and I painted around these words. I almost could't keep up with "their" speed. It sounds bizarre, I know, but I felt a close kinship with the author, Elizabeth Bowen who was an Anglo-Irish novelist.

Maybe I lost words of my own. Maybe I had to borrow someone else's.



"Reduced" from Dear John



no chair invited you.

                 A pretty September day


                                                                                    married at
nineteen.


she was twenty-seven or –eight

         reputation of being the most unpopular man

                                    He was careful, savagely careful, about
money and not careful enough about seeing



            anxious to “settle”






                        bought reduced coats and shoes for the little
girls
        the girls’ education would be a heavy expense.




                             She was a shiftless woman.






                   The house looked dedicated to a perpetual
January





            The nicest woman like having unattached men.
Around, “She must be full of brains.”






                        after one more forbidden




                                    our darling should leave

                        black chill of
                                                The schoolroom had a
faded sea-blue wallpaper







                                                                        “Have you
stopped painting?”


                       
                                                            on such a fine day
there would be shadows.”


    wash that blue off your paint-brush.”





The little girls were alike,









             part of her power
                 they prayed she might die


                 unwound the skipping-ropes




                                    skipped seventy-eight     her toes
bounced
out of her head. At last the rope caught her toe. “That’s
the record.”




            ‘Surely                                                at last.
               know                                         “I’ve


“She was accused of murder.”

                                    So she disappeared, hoping to be
forgotten





            Children,
                        They sat stone-still, clasped hands.


                                                            she will play games









                                                                                    My
own children are strangers;




                                                It’s rude to look at each other
when mother speaks!”
























From "Dear John" series.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Steam Tables (Table 3. Vapor, page 18)



                       
                                     differences in flow pattern and general behavior,


having significantly different physical characteristics.


= (eji + wij) Aj,                                                 combustion or evaporation,
             eji = ½ (uj,i + ui,j),                   wij = ½ (uj,i - ui,j).


the eji and wij were constants and so small that their products < 0
                                                                                   
                                                                                         1   2            1   2 
                                                                                    e1 Aj Aj  = ejk  Ak A





Steam Tables (Table 3. Vapor, page 16)





                        INTRODUCTORY CONCEPT

CHAPTER I
            If               science like fluid
If                                         passes through
If for every                                      between
            Love: A


be replaced by                         A & B
                                                                            of A1, A2, A3, we must have
                                                                                               BODY FORCES.

                                                                    point of the body

                        F is                                                      Likewise a body originally

                                                                    are apt to lead to a false conclusions.

                                                                        l is multiply connected,